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Saturday, April 20, 2013

Tuesday I bought the Hitman Trilogy HD in the PlayStation Store. I bought this game because of the price, it was only ten euros. The Trilogy features Hitman 2: Silent Assassin, Hitman: Contracts and Hitman: Blood Money. After I 'finished' Mass Effect 3, I started the Trilogy with Hitman 2: Silent Assassin. Hitman 2: Silent Assassin came out in 2002. The game starts in Italy. Hitman is at the beginning of Silent Assassin a gardener in a monastery. The priest of the monastery is kidnapped, so Hitman goes after him.
I like this game very much. The gameplay is very challenging and fun. At every contract there are many ways to finish it. It's quite difficult to finish a level without killing any other person than the target and not being discovered. Until now I succeeded only one time to get the Silent Assassin rating. At the end of every mission you get a rating based on the amount of bullets you shot, the amount of people you kill and the amount of conflicts you have. So if they are all zero, except for the kill, that is allowed to be one, you get the Silent Assassin rating.

Thanks to this game I know good graphics are not necessary for a game. If the gameplay is good, you don't need good graphics. Good graphics are even a bit distracting. In Hitman I never look at a computer screen, the only thing that on it is several white lines. In Mass Effect 3 for example, you see animations on the screen of a computer, and that's not necessary for a game. The next weeks you will read a lot about Hitman, because of the other games in the trilogy and because Hitman Absolution is free for PlayStation Plus next month!